Tag: Reflections
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Weekly Reflections #7
I had a nightmare this week that I became a lawyer again. On a related note, I got a sleep aid from my doctor (pretty lightweight antihistamine that also controls anxiety) for the first time in my life. It’s great. When I need to take it (once or twice a month, usually), I fall asleep…
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Weekly Reflections #6
Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; Holacracy by Brian J. Robertson; Buddhism, Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen Watching: Still watching The Last of Us and Poker Face as they come out. The big headline is that our good friend Andrew Helms helped produce Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence,…
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Weekly Reflections #5
Reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (this is really, really good so far and I’m having to parse it out for myself so I can keep enjoying it). Watching: Nothing new to add on the highly acclaimed episode 3 of The Last of Us, except that if you liked this, you should go…
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Weekly Reflections #4
Reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (this is really, really good so far and I’m having to parse it out for myself so I can keep enjoying it). I finished It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley, which was pretty darn good. It tackles a fundamental tension: what happens…
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Weekly Reflections #3
Back from travel, which means a fulfilling week at work but one that upended a few habits. Reading: It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley and Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen I finished Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers, and The…
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Weekly Reflections #2
Traveling this week so let’s do an abbreviated version: Reading: The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers, Runner by Thomas Perry, Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet Watching: we finished Fleishman is in Trouble on last week in a flurry/binge. So good, though idk a realistic drama about entering middle-age and divorce is…
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Weekly Reflections
Well, new year, same me and all. Which means I’ll write these for a few weeks and then get “busy” and stop. But for now here we go. I recommitted a while back to reading every morning before starting work. I did okay with that commitment–I kept it during easy weeks but tended to lose…
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The Week Ahead
Going to keep it short this morning. Had a great weekend, including seeing Built to Spill live for the first time in like 20 years. Cat’s Cradle is still great. Other part of the weekend is that I woke up Saturday and had some sciatica (new word for me provided by the teledoc I talked…
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Habit Analysis, Cont’d
It occurs to me today that part of the reason these shifts were so difficult is that I was trying to make all of them at once. In the past, I was nudging each one along, one at a time usually, trying to see if it would work. Perhaps this is the approach I’ll take…
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Adjustments + Looking Forward To This Week
One adjustment to a new job I didn’t think about very much beforehand but am now noticing acutely is the need to make shifts to habits and routines. In my old role, I worked most evenings Monday-Thursday, usually for 2-3 hours each night coaching, and I took a similar amount of time during the day…
The Minimum Blues 